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xchrom

(108,903 posts) Wed Dec 4, 2013, 03:58 PM Dec 2013

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International Cheetah Day Is The One Holiday We Should All Observe This Season

http://www.buzzfeed.com/dray/international-cheetah-day-is-the-one-holiday-we-sh-4666

About 10,000 of the world’s fastest land animal remain in the wild

At full sprint, the cheetah can reach speeds in excess of 70 miles per hour

Yet, they are one of the most endangered big cats in Africa

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International Cheetah Day Is The One Holiday We Should All Observe This Season (Original Post) xchrom Dec 2013 OP

Holy cow-- Jackpine Radical Dec 2013 #1

Cheetahs are things of beauty! immoderate Dec 2013 #2

Graceful, lithe, streamlined power Blue Owl Dec 2013 #3

kr for cheetahs stuntcat Dec 2013 #4

awsome cats gejohnston Dec 2013 #5

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)

1. Holy cow--

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 04:01 PM

Dec 2013

A potential name for a new version of OS X that Apple missed, before plunging into the uninspiring "Mavericks" sobriquet.

immoderate

(20,885 posts)

2. Cheetahs are things of beauty!

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 04:07 PM

Dec 2013

--imm

Blue Owl

(50,427 posts)

3. Graceful, lithe, streamlined power

Reply to immoderate (Reply #2)

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 05:08 PM

Dec 2013

K&R for cheetahs

stuntcat

(12,022 posts)

4. kr for cheetahs

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Wed Dec 4, 2013, 07:16 PM

Dec 2013

Good luck making it to the end of this century.

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)

5. awsome cats

Reply to xchrom (Original post)

Sat Dec 7, 2013, 02:01 AM

Dec 2013

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